Wednesday evening Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States announced that Saudi Arabia had commenced military operations against the Ansarullah fighters of the Houthi movement in Yemen. The Saudi intervention was not unexpected. Over the last few weeks there were signs that the U.S. and the Saudi’s were preparing the ground for direct military intervention in Yemen in response to the Houthi’s seizing state power in January.

Is the United States finally accepting responsibility for the devastating ongoing effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam, or is this funding just a way to get USAID in the door to meddle in the country’s affairs as part of Obama’s “Asian Pivot” strategy?

If you think “corporate personhood” is a bad idea, just wait for corporate nationhood.

The Obama administration – and bipartisan supporters – are trying to ram through Congress a secret corporate trade deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership, (TPP), that would give corporations more power than nations.

How secret?

Your representatives in Congress have been threatened with criminal prosecution if they tell us, the public, what the TPP says.

Obama is fighting to ram this deal through using “fast track authority” – meaning there will be no meaningful debate over this secret corporate coup.